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I had to Google the Q6600, because I don't use Intel CPU's. Never did!
That's a very high end and very specific cpu and requires a very specific bios.
There's nothing 'Garden Variety' about it.
But CPU aside, no two mobo's are exactly alike and every mobo has a bios specially written for it.
In the above mentioned case the bios may not be the problem at all, but it's foolish to just discount that, off hand, as it actually may enter into the problem. DO, check for bios updates for that board.
And yes, there are a bunch of less than pure, copies of Win-7 floating around.
I guess I lucked out with mine. It just works great.
The Doctor